- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:26:42 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote: > I agree with everything Julian said, except: > > Julian Reschke wrote: >> TEXT already allows C1 controls (and always did) >> (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest.html#rule.TEXT>): >> >> TEXT = %x20-7E | %x80-FF | LWS >> ; any OCTET except CTLs, but including LWS >> >> That being said, I'd like it to exclude C1 controls. > > If C1 controls _in the form of octets %x80-9F_ are excluded, and HTTP > agents begin to reject TEXT containing those octets, it will be harder > to transition to UTF-8 later. (In case you'd forgotton, UTF-8 uses > those octet values for normal characters). No I didn't. Good point. > ... BR, Julian
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